CMS Intro

The purpose of UofL's web content management system (CMS) is to simplify web publishing. Our goal is to make web publishing as simple as managing your e-mail. A web content management system will allow us to:

• Empower non-technical staff and faculty to write, edit, and manage Web content.
• Publish information to public-facing Web sites, create intranets, and dynamically format information for alternate viewers such as cell phones and wireless devices.
• Dynamically update Web sites.
• Provide a centralized set of Web products that everyone can use.
• More easily safeguard data.
• Achieve a consistent look-and-feel.

In addition to these obvious features, a CMS can allow us to:

• Improve site usability.
• Make it easier to post content that is within Section 508 and WAI accessibility guidelines.
• Save everyone time and money by maintaining a centralized, reusable set of web-based tools.

 You can request a CMS site for your unit or department at http://louisville.edu/web/tools/site-requests

The University's current CMS platform is Plone 3.1.  Plone is a content management system (CMS) which you can use to build a web site. With Plone, ordinary people can contribute content to a web site without the help of a computer geek. Plone runs over the Web, too, so you don’t need to install any special software on your computer.